After years of budget and staffing cuts, Cuomo's plan maintains current agency funding and staffing levels.

A coalition of groups called Friends of New York's Environment said Wednesday it was happy that Cuomo included a $153 million investment for the state's Environmental Protection Fund. That's a $19 million increase over last year's level, with the additional money coming from unclaimed returnable bottle deposits.

Under Cuomo's plan, the Department of Environmental Conservation would get $40 million from the New York Works capital program.